Making the moon from a fast-spinning earth: A giant impact followed by resonant despinning

Science

Volumn 338, Issue 6110, 2012, Pages 1047-1052

  Ćuk, Matija ^a,b   Stewart, Sarah T ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCRETION; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MANTLE; MOMENTUM; MOON; ORBITAL FORCING; RESONANCE;

ACCELERATION; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; FAST SPINNING EARTH; MOON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESONANT DESPINNING; SIMULATION; SUN;

EID: 84869779315     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1225542     Document Type: Article

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